YORK, Pa. (WHTM) -
Police in York County have made an arrest in the two-year-old shooting death of a 55-year-old Glenville woman.
Timothy Matthew Jacoby, 39, was charged Tuesday with criminal homicide and related charges in the March 31, 2010 homicide of Monica Schmeyer, according to Southwestern Regional police.
Jacoby, of York, was in prison for an unrelated firearms offense at the time of his arrest. He is now being held without bail.
Schmeyer was found dead from a single gunshot wound to her head inside her rural home in the 3400 block of Trone Road after a 911 hang-up. A spent .32-caliber shell casing was near her body, but there were no signs of forced entry or robbery, investigators said.
According to charging documents, Schmeyer's caller ID indicated she received a phone call from the cell phone of her ex-husband, Jon Schmeyer, about an hour-and-a-half before the 911 hang-up.
Jon Schmeyer was living in Williamsburg, Va. at the time of his ex-wife's death, but told police he was with a friend at the Hooter's restaurant in York that day. The friend confirmed that she was with Mr. Schmeyer, but said her fiance, Tim Jacoby, usually meets with them and was not there that day, documents state.
Police said in the documents that Mr. Schmeyer and Jacoby are both members of a social group that met frequently at the restaurant.
Court documents also state that a neighbor saw a man walking toward the victim's home, and a short time later walking back at the approximate time of Schmeyer's killing. Another person saw a man walking nearby toward a parked gray or silver van. Both provided descriptions of a man similar to Jacoby, police said.
Jacoby's employer provided records that indicated he was driving a silver van on the day Schmeyer was killed, documents state.
Police said they also seized a .32-caliber semiautomatic handgun and spent shell casings from the home of Jacoby's parents. Ballistics tests confirmed the shell casings seized by police were fired from the same gun that fired the spent shell at the murder scene, documents state.
According to the documents, the barrel of the handgun seized at Jacoby's parents and a second barrel for the gun taken from Jacoby's home both had been damaged by filing or scraping.
Jacoby was not permitted to own firearms because of his 2006 conviction for a robbery in Springettsbury Township, documents state.
A preliminary hearing in the case was scheduled for Sept. 17.
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